Example sentences of "by then [pron] " in BNC.

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1 By then its established language had become a form of English referred to by Gaelic speakers as ‘ Inglis ’ , then ‘ Scots ’ .
2 That the rest had given rise to as much pain did not matter ; she herself had known by then what to expect and had steeled herself to bear it .
3 But by then their finances were already weakened by the takeover frenzy of the late 1980s and by their alliance with Robert Campeau , whom they helped buy Federated Stores in the United States .
4 By then we were also starting to work on the group .
5 It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable .
6 By then we thought our bluff had succeeded and after another five miles meeting enemy units on the move , we decided that enough was enough .
7 Luckily by then we had enough material — together with a few more worry lines .
8 Maybe ‘ The Queen Is Dead ’ is better ( only maybe ) but by then we had grown to expect the remarkable as a matter of course .
9 By then we feel comfortable .
10 Then when I took er you 'd you could take a proficiency test which was held at , at your Company Headquarters by a visiting officer and erm I then , we 'd , by then we 'd had some American weapons come , one was the Browning automatic which is a very very good good er weapon , you could r fire single shots or rapid shots .
11 By then we realize that we 've missed all connections up the line .
12 By then we were living in a dirt-cheap place on the Bowery .
13 By then we 'd decided to go down separately , in the little passenger pod .
14 The man shouts , ‘ There ai n't no hurry , you got another ten minutes ’ , but by then we 're both hammering down the escalator .
15 By then we were all pretty good so we found it much more enjoyable .
16 But by then we had Bernard and I was a mother . ’
17 For the pure components , , and as ΔS M , the change in entropy on mixing , is given by then we can write so for a two component mixture
18 By then we should have completed any changes to the constitution and bye-laws , have decided on the long term future of our examination system and have strengthened our financial position so that we can meet the costs involved .
19 However , Gunn is nt as good on crosses as Miklosko is , and by then we might have had some practice !
20 No I agree with that , I think you 've got to yes we 'll agree that and also hopefully by then we 'll have clarity the clarity on the salary and then we 'll get in there in which case you 're laughing , right
21 By then we 'll know where to go
22 For example , I really liked the Jowett Javelin but by then they 'd already pretty much disappeared .
23 By then they were running round frantically trying to excuse everything that had happened .
24 By then they were generally known simply as the Dutch breed and were found only on the east coast of England .
25 She may appear to become quite self= centred , and those who have been doing all they can to help her may become exasperated and tempted to hint that it is time she tried to ‘ pull herself together ’ , for by then they too will be feeling the strain .
26 By then they were selling more than half a million major appliances annually .
27 When they bought them from me , I said , ‘ For the next ten to fifteen years do n't sell these , because by then they will be worth a great deal ’ .
28 And by then they all knew who ‘ he ’ was , or thought they did .
29 ‘ The characters when I 'd started out were in my head , but by then they 'd become real actors .
30 Donleavy tried to make up for it later by arranging a champagne thank-you weekend for the Colemans at the DIA 's expense in an exclusive little Georgetown hotel , but by then they were almost too tired to enjoy it .
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